Comments on: Sensing and Modeling Human Networks http://cluster.othermaps.com/sensing-and-modeling-human-networks mediated space etc. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tim http://cluster.othermaps.com/sensing-and-modeling-human-networks/comment-page-1#comment-132 tim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=158#comment-132 There was something puzzling me about this paper and your previous post ... and now i realize that it's the lack of "touch" awareness in the sensor devices. OK, we know the people are close but we don't know if they actually touched! Handshake anyone? What about a kiss? I guess you can extrapolate from the data ... in the same way you can use Google to smell the coffee. I suppose if there were a store in SoHo selling haptic socialnet outfits it would be called "Stay In Touch" There was something puzzling me about this paper and your previous post … and now i realize that it’s the lack of “touch” awareness in the sensor devices. OK, we know the people are close but we don’t know if they actually touched! Handshake anyone? What about a kiss? I guess you can extrapolate from the data … in the same way you can use Google to smell the coffee.

I suppose if there were a store in SoHo selling haptic socialnet outfits it would be called “Stay In Touch”

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/sensing-and-modeling-human-networks/comment-page-1#comment-133 darrell Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=158#comment-133 well yes, it was the contrast of the two on the same day. the sensor thing is asking for being strapped to a dog/panda/albatross, and being set free to generate interesting cross-connections... well yes, it was the contrast of the two on the same day. the sensor thing is asking for being strapped to a dog/panda/albatross, and being set free to generate interesting cross-connections…

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